As I was making a cut the other night I saw something out of the corner my eye, after I shut the saw off I stood there in disbelief. Can you see it?

Maybe from the front.

or the back a little closer.

Yep, cracked, completely through…........... :/I called Ridgid and told them the table top was cracked, the person I spoke with did not hesitate at all, warranty. The local service guy has ordered a new top, when it comes in I can stop by and pick it up. Just thought I should pass on this not so comforting news.

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

So are you saying that they are going to deliver the new top to your shop, pull the damaged top off and install the new one for you? If so, now that’s service! I’m certain that the place were I purchased my saw wouldn’t do all of that. “Here’s you new top Chuck, have a ball getting the old top off and the new one on all by yourself.”

Timbo, sorry to hear about the crack in your top. As Rick suggested, epoxy can be used on granite for repair, however I think it would only cover the surface of the crack and so it would only be a cosmetic repair.

I’m kinda thinking that if the crack relieved whatever stress was on the top, then that may be all you ever seefrom it but it sure will be nice to have the extra top on hand just in case!!!

I haven’t seen what the support looks like under that granite. Is it good enough? Seems like you’d need as much steel as a regular table saw to support the granite on top of them? I don’t know about these granite tops seems a little counter intuative. If the crack formed there that would tell me that it wasn’t supported well enough to keep it from doing so? Which would mean that now your table might have an upside down v shape to it ( very subtle though). Just my thoughts, I’d love to look up her skirt and see how she’s built…hehe

Sorry the top cracked, Timbo. I am off to pick up a 4511 tomorrow, and this scares me a little (Okay, maybe a lot!). The most important question here, I think, is Why did it crack?

I certainly wouldn’t do any replacement until I had an answer.

Was it torque, lack of support, too little material (granite) to support the table, did some debris or tiny object create a pivot point between the frame and the top, or was it some defect in the material?

As I said, Scary!

Please let us know if you learn anything.

Thanks for sharing,

Matt

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